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sunspot

/suhn-spot/US // ˈsʌnˌspɒt //UK // (ˈsʌnˌspɒt) //

太阳黑子,太阳系,太阳电池,太阳神

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena.

Examples

  • His successors later noticed that sunspots often produce bursts of radiation called solar flares.

  • To capture the sunspot, the researchers pointed the telescope’s 13-foot mirror—three times wider than any other solar telescope—towards the central area of the star.

  • This week, the first image of a sunspot from the high-definition Inouye telescope was finally published.

  • This recent sunspot image was captured on January 28 of this year, and it’s just one part of a bigger series.

  • The largest solar telescope on Earth has gotten the sharpest glimpse ever of a sunspot.

  • And Bishop, Colossus, Warpath, Blink, Sunspot, Quiksilver, Stryker and Havoc will all be there too.

  • For even this great sunspot was but small as compared with the Sun as a whole.

  • They would not be strictly accurate, because a sunspot could knock all meaning out of any reading beyond two decimal places.

  • The sunspot cycle has appeared to average 11.2 years in length, and has been called the 11-year cycle.

  • That is, you cannot connect a particular sunspot group with a particular S-Region.

  • It means you can only approximately predict the future course of sunspot activity.